[Showcase] The real world's largest rockets

[Redrobin]

Working on a Long March 2F:

[Razorcane]

I don't see anywhere that it is stock craft only, so I took the liberty of making a Delta IV with StretchyTanks and various other mods. It can send 14t to LKO (With RSS, obviously).

The payload was only 9t, but the DCSS still had about 2km/s of delta-v left, which means that it could have pushed more.

[Redrobin]

What mod turns Kerbin into Earth?

[Razorcane]

RealSolarSystem, of course.

[Redrobin]

It makes it look like Earth?

[wasmic]

In these thread there are chronolgical the actual biggest rockets of the world, based on this video.

The only one that I didn't know was the one at 8:40. Can anyone tell me which it is?

By the way, this video completely ignores both the Ares V (which was only a rough draft, but it's something) and its counter-proposals, Jupiter-130 and Jupiter-246. It could also do with the Nova, which was an upscaled S-V. Check this list for a comparison of all (okay, most) space launch rockets ever conceived, and it's even sortable by both rocket mass and mass-to-orbit.

AFAIK, the list of biggest rockets measured in payload-to-orbit looks like this:

1: Ares V, 180 metric tons(mt) (which was totally incredible, literally, it was not credible).

2: SLS Block 2, 130 mt.

3: Saturn V, 119 mt.

4: Energiya, 100 mt.

5: N1 "Herkules", 90 mt.

6: Jupiter-246, 90 mt.

7: SLS Block 1, 70 mt.

8: Jupiter-130, 60 mt.

9: Falcon Heavy, 53 mt (woo, asparagus FTW)

10: Angara A7.

The Nova should probably blow all the others out of the water, but since the name was given to 30+ different rockets, it's hard to say an exact number. 8 F-1 engines sound like a lot, though.

[WJDubs]

I'm going to try to attempt to make an SLS with circular solar panels, KW rocketry, and maybe something else.

[Redrobin]

Good luck

[oosime]

The only one that I didn't know was the one at 8:40. Can anyone tell me which it is?

By the way, this video completely ignores both the Ares V (which was only a rough draft, but it's something) and its counter-proposals, Jupiter-130 and Jupiter-246. It could also do with the Nova, which was an upscaled S-V. Check this list for a comparison of all (okay, most) space launch rockets ever conceived, and it's even sortable by both rocket mass and mass-to-orbit.

AFAIK, the list of biggest rockets measured in payload-to-orbit looks like this:

1: Ares V, 180 metric tons(mt) (which was totally incredible, literally, it was not credible).

2: SLS Block 2, 130 mt.

3: Saturn V, 119 mt.

4: Energiya, 100 mt.

5: N1 "Herkules", 90 mt.

6: Jupiter-246, 90 mt.

7: SLS Block 1, 70 mt.

8: Jupiter-130, 60 mt.

9: Falcon Heavy, 53 mt (woo, asparagus FTW)

10: Angara A7.

The Nova should probably blow all the others out of the water, but since the name was given to 30+ different rockets, it's hard to say an exact number. 8 F-1 engines sound like a lot, though.

I think that one you didn't know is the GSLV.

[Razorcane]

It makes it look like Earth?

Version 6 does.

[Redrobin]

Ah I must have an older version.

[Nephf]

The only one that I didn't know was the one at 8:40. Can anyone tell me which it is?

By the way, this video completely ignores both the Ares V (which was only a rough draft, but it's something) and its counter-proposals, Jupiter-130 and Jupiter-246. It could also do with the Nova, which was an upscaled S-V. Check this list for a comparison of all (okay, most) space launch rockets ever conceived, and it's even sortable by both rocket mass and mass-to-orbit.

AFAIK, the list of biggest rockets measured in payload-to-orbit looks like this:

1: Ares V, 180 metric tons(mt) (which was totally incredible, literally, it was not credible).

2: SLS Block 2, 130 mt.

3: Saturn V, 119 mt.

4: Energiya, 100 mt.

5: N1 "Herkules", 90 mt.

6: Jupiter-246, 90 mt.

7: SLS Block 1, 70 mt.

8: Jupiter-130, 60 mt.

9: Falcon Heavy, 53 mt (woo, asparagus FTW)

10: Angara A7.

The Nova should probably blow all the others out of the water, but since the name was given to 30+ different rockets, it's hard to say an exact number. 8 F-1 engines sound like a lot, though.

Most of those will never exist, so you can't say they are real world. By the way, you really think the list ends with Angara and everything else doesn't count? Also, the Ares V was about the size od SLS Block 2 so it hat about 130 mt or something.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Nephf

[wasmic]

Most of those will never exist, so you can't say they are real world. By the way, you really think the list ends with Angara and everything else doesn't count? Also, the Ares V was about the size od SLS Block 2 so it hat about 130 mt or something.

Of course I don't think the list ends at Angara-A7. But when you say "The worlds largest rockets", you usually mean something like top-10 or top-15, not top-50.

Anyway, for some reason, I thought that this was also the place for posting conceptual-only rockets, but after re-reading it, I see that you only want rockets that have been flown or are in active development - but then, it doesn't make sense that there is an Ares V a few pages back. And actually, Jupiter-130 and Jupiter-246 were closer to existing than the Ares V.

Anyway, does anybody know what the rocket at 8:40 was?

[Nephf]

Anyway, does anybody know what the rocket at 8:40 was?

It's the Chinese Long March 2F

[wasmic]

It's the Chinese Long March 2F

I don't think so. The Long March 2F has four short liquid fuelled boosters, while the rocket at 8:35-8:45 has 2 (or 3) boosters, which have a different shape, and, by the looks of the smoke plume, are solid fuelled. The speaker-guy (can't remember the english word right now) sounds french, but it's neither an Ariane, Vega or Diamant. I simply do not know what it is.

[ethan829]

I don't think so. The Long March 2F has four short liquid fuelled boosters, while the rocket at 8:35-8:45 has 2 (or 3) boosters, which have a different shape, and, by the looks of the smoke plume, are solid fuelled. The speaker-guy (can't remember the english word right now) sounds french, but it's neither an Ariane, Vega or Diamant. I simply do not know what it is.

It's named in the "About" section of the video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle

[Nephf]

So it's the Indian Launch Vehicle, but I think 5 mt is not large :/ I think the GSLV mk III will be bigged (10 mt), so this is something for the list

Btw, there has been the question how I made this list, it's just everything that has more than 10 mt.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Nephf

[Razorcane]

Of course I don't think the list ends at Angara-A7. But when you say "The worlds largest rockets", you usually mean something like top-10 or top-15, not top-50.

Anyway, for some reason, I thought that this was also the place for posting conceptual-only rockets, but after re-reading it, I see that you only want rockets that have been flown or are in active development - but then, it doesn't make sense that there is an Ares V a few pages back. And actually, Jupiter-130 and Jupiter-246 were closer to existing than the Ares V.

FYI, Ares 1 did fly. It only had one flight, and it didn't go to orbit, but it did fly. Also, Ares V was nearing completion. They had built the SRBs, but the first and second stages were only about 2/3 of the way done.

Most of those will never exist, so you can't say they are real world. By the way, you really think the list ends with Angara and everything else doesn't count? Also, the Ares V was about the size od SLS Block 2 so it hat about 130 mt or something.

I think the 130mt refers to how much it sends to LEO. Ares 1 only had enough delta-v to send about 25t to LEO. If you're talking about overall weight, the SLS is going to weigh over 2000t, where Ares weighed less than half that(or so I've read).